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Lauren Pearlman's "Democracy's Capital" is out November 25.

D.C. bars and restaurants could be ready to take your bets by Super Bowl Sunday, even though plans for citywide sports betting have been tied up in the city’s bureaucracy as well as the courts.

That was one of several tragic crises the Department of Behavioral Health tried to explain last night.

Two-thirds of D.C. residents approve of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) job performance and a slight majority wants her to run for a third term in 2022, a Washington Post poll finds.

Last April, 25 Opportunity Zones (OZs) were identified in Washington, DC, and earlier this year, a study showed an inconsistent, but measurable uptick in housing prices in OZs nationwide. Now, a new report takes a more granular look at how…

The cast of “19: The Musical” is in the middle of a weeknight rehearsal at an Arlington community theater. It’s crunch time: They’re performing in the show’s premiere next week at D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts.

A World Series title coupled with years of on- and off-field blunders by the local football team has reshuffled the sports hierarchy in Washington, and the Nationals are now clearly the city’s favorite sports franchise, according to a poll…

Advocates say the Bowser administration’s strict regulations are to blame.

Mike Smith remembers how the disease ravaged San Francisco’s Castro district, the heart of the gay community. How you’d pass emaciated men on the street, covered in cancer scars, and how, by the summer of 1987, a thousand men in a 10-block…

D.C. police are investigating after a 15-year-old girl said she was injured during a confrontation with officers who stopped her and her younger brother as they sold plantain chips Tuesday evening on the street in Columbia Heights.

Douglas Jemal has pioneered the development of booming neighborhoods throughout D.C., none moreso than Ivy City.

It didn’t matter that Noreen Beatley didn’t know any of the homeless children. When she learned that they needed to cross two busy roads and then take multiple forms of public transportation to get to and from school, she offered to serve…

Apartments.com and Zillow aim to help protect Section 8 participants

As Howard University prepares for the next phase of its campus plan and redevelopment of off-campus properties, another site is on the table.

At-Large Councilmember David Grosso announced a couple weeks ago that he will not seek a third term in the Wilson Building. He then promptly went about setting fire to his soon-to-be former workplace—or at least to his soon-to-be former…

D.C. Council member Jack Evans displayed no hesi­ta­tion when an investigator recently asked about his compensation from a prominent Washington law firm.

In fleeing, the striking driver hit a D.C. Circulator bus and a parked car

D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen introduced two bills on Tuesday that would grant new rights and privileges to members of Native American tribes, particularly those indigenous to the D.C. area. One bill would allow people to include their…

Authentic. Groundbreaking. Compassionate. Loving. These are some of the words that come to mind when I think about the Whittier Education Campus community. I often joke with my staff that Whittier is the best-kept secret in the District of…

Following months of public meetings held by the District Department of Transportation to gather information about ways to improve the transportation network west of Massachusetts Avenue, one proposed plan has stood apart from the rest.